Select Written traces of the Buddhist past: Mantras and Dhara is in Indonesian inscriptions Written traces of the Buddhist past: Mantras and Dhara is in Indonesian inscriptions

Select Written traces of the Buddhist past: Mantras and Dhara is in Indonesian inscriptions Written traces of the Buddhist past: Mantras and Dhara is in Indonesian inscriptions

Author: 
Griffiths, Arlo
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Date published: 
2014
Record type: 
Journal Title: 
Bulletin of the school of Oriental and African studies
Source: 
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 77, No. 1, 2014, pp. 137-194
Abstract: 

This article examines a group of ten Indonesian inscriptions citing a range of gathas, mantras and dhara is. The texts, contextualized and in some cases read and identified for the first time, underline the pan-Asian character of Buddhism and the integral place the Indonesian archipelago once held in the ancient Buddhist world. The identification of the sources of several of these texts in known Sanskrit scriptures raises the question whether some of these texts, none of which survives as such in the archipelago, were once transmitted there in manuscript form.

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CITATION: Griffiths, Arlo. Select Written traces of the Buddhist past: Mantras and Dhara is in Indonesian inscriptions Written traces of the Buddhist past: Mantras and Dhara is in Indonesian inscriptions . : Cambridge University Press , 2014. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 77, No. 1, 2014, pp. 137-194 - Available at: https://library.au.int/select-written-traces-buddhist-past-mantras-and-dhara-indonesian-inscriptions-written-traces